Some stats on how miserable the White Sox offense is: OPS+, OPS in high leverage situations, S0% & GIDP%

The White Sox have the lowest OPS+ in the AL with 76. Next lowest is the Angels with 88. The league average is, of course, 100. OPS+ is OPS (OBP + SLG) adjusted for park effects and the league average. The Marlins have the lowest in the NL with 82.

The Sox OPS+ of 76 is the 25th lowest since 1900 in the AL/NL. Click here to see all the teams at 80 or lower. 

Here are all the teams below 80 since the year 2000:

Season	Team	OPS+
2013	Marlin	73
2020	Pirates	74
2024	White Sox	76
2004	D-Backs	77
2019	Marlins	77
2020	TEX	78
2019	DET	78
2004	MON	79
2003	LAD	79
2001	PIT	79
2010	SEA	79

So the Sox have the 3rd lowest OPS+ in the last 25 years. And one of the teams lower was in the Covid year.

Right now the White Sox have the 3rd lowest OPS ever in high leverage situations (see Win Expectancy (WE) and Run Expectancy (RE) Stats from Baseball Reference for more on leverage). High leverage situations are "situations where dramatic swings in win probability are possible."

Click here to see all the teams that had under a .600 OPS in high leverage situations.

Here is the bottom 10:

Team	Year	OPS
White Sox	1914	0.532
Cubs	1916	0.538
White Sox	2024	0.552
A's	1945	0.558
Phillies	1942	0.560
A's	1915	0.561
Reds	1914	0.568
Pirates	1914	0.568
Reds	1915	0.572
Dodgers	1967	0.572
Mets	1968	0.572

At .552, the Sox are the worst team in high leverage situations in over 100 years. The last team before this that finished below .600 in these cases was the Padres in 1972 who had .594.

The Sox have the lowest OBP in the AL with .278. Next lowest are the Tigers at .299. The league average is .310. The lowest in the NL belongs to the Marlins at .297.

Yet the White Sox are fourth in the AL in GIDPs with 109. The league average is 98.

They hit into DPs 12.3% of the time there is an opportunity. Highest in the AL. The league average is 10.0%.

This is not because they strike out infrequently. They have the 5th highest strikeout rate in the AL at 24.1%. The league average is 22.5%.

So they are 23% higher than the league avg. in DP rate and 7.1% higher in SO rate

I found each team's ratio to the league average in these stats and then found the geometric mean for each team. The Sox had the highest at 1.14 (bad in this case to be above 1). Then there was a 1.09 and a 1.08. So Sox well ahead of the next worse team. 

 

This table shows the ratio of each AL team for each stat and then the geometric mean of the two (geometric mean of A & B is the square root of A*B-it is a way to keep extreme values from dominating)

 

Team	GIDP Ratio	SO Ratio	Gmean
Chicago White Sox	1.23	1.07	1.15
Los Angeles Angels	1.14	1.04	1.09
Seattle Mariners	0.97	1.21	1.08
Oakland Athletics	1.01	1.10	1.06
Boston Red Sox	0.97	1.12	1.04
New York Yankees	1.12	0.93	1.02
Toronto Blue Jays	1.14	0.91	1.02
Minnesota Twins	1.04	0.96	1.00
Cleveland Guardians	1.08	0.88	0.97
Tampa Bay Rays	0.86	1.09	0.97
Houston Astros	1.09	0.86	0.97
Detroit Tigers	0.85	1.06	0.95
Texas Rangers	0.89	0.94	0.91
Kansas City Royals	0.92	0.84	0.88
Baltimore Orioles	0.63	0.97	0.78

 

The White Sox are clearly the worst this combined rating of DP% and SO%.